Jixue Yang ｜ 杨继学

Selections of Premieres, Fun Collabs, Solos, and More

The dominant color of this whole recital is Messiaen. (Yes, there are couple more videos from this same recital.)
For Messiaen, music was not only a part of his faith but also an intangible offering to the divine realm. While composing Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus, Messiaen used its notes as a tribute to God, imbuing the music with a quality that hovers between the real and the ethereal. I have selected four fragments, all containing the “God theme” in F-sharp major. This theme begins with a simple motif, transforming across different movements, mysterious yet filled with love. Messiaen’s synesthetic vision lends the piece an ever-shifting palette of colors.
A fascinating one. Throughout the work, aside from the faintly discernible hints of F-sharp major, there are countless tributes to Messiaen.
Harvey writes: “This work is a modest offering in response to the death of a great musical and spiritual presence. Messiaen was a protospectralist, that is to say, he was fascinated by the colours of the harmonic series and its distortions, and found therein a prismatic play of light. The tape part of my work is composed of piano sounds entirely tuned to harmonic series – twelve of them, one for each class of pitch. The ‘tempered’ live piano joins and distorts these series, never entirely belonging, never entirely separate. “
An unique blend of tradition and modernist, like Lutosławski’s use of intricate counterpoint and vibrant orchestration, has always been something in music that I wanted to discover.
This piece always reminds me of a shamisen player performing on the desolate shores of Tsugaru in winter. The cold wind, the white snow. And from this point, this piece becomes extremely personal.
A set of three pieces for pianoforte that explores unexpected half- memories and misremembrances. The nature of the march and the meaning it has in the mind of the individual depicted in this piece is unknown. -William Bolles-Beaven
As guest artist at the University of Florida. We were premiering their composer’s new works following a workshop session. Do you feel the energy that is being carried out?
As guest artist at the University of Florida. We were premiering their composer’s new works following a workshop session. We were having fun listening to the electronic effect that Daniel was creating along the acoustic sound.
A meditative piece for Apply Triangle, by Yaz, during the time of the pandemic. They also composed a piece titled “whisk” for the trio’s album project – Make sure you check that out too!
A recital that programs female composers’ works in the 20th-21st century – Works by Sariaaho, Gubaidulina, and my dearest friends.
Commissioned by Apply Triangle – A world premiere of flutes, clarinets, piano, and live electronics.